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  1. Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    So... no real chance of Mozarbic/'Spanish' pulling off the same trick Persian did OTL then?
  2. The Forge of Weyland

    R, R, R de R.
  3. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    Hell, there are LOTS of families in the "1st World" that can't claim all of that. I do sort of like that the traditional "Chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage" has been replaced by a car and two computers. Calories sure. There are 1,000 calories in a liters of Vodka. A good number...
  4. Japanese Empire with a Human Face

    Why would Japan reform at all? After all, the militarists TTL have been ludicrously, stupidly successful. They’ll be vindicated! They won’t be occupied or dependent on the US, and essentially be autarkic.
  5. Osman Aga

    WI: Ali and Fuad Pasha live longer?

    You wouldn't have Mahmud Nedim Pasha who would be very much pro-Russian/Ignatiev. Both Pasha's cannot prevent a drought as far as I see it, but they would keep order as Veteran Politicians and leave no room for a Coup against Abdulaziz I (probably deal better in internal affairs or keep the...
  6. A History of Alyska to the year 1800.

    Of course i excluded rice for obvious reasons. I think the greatest impact in vegetables production would be thanks to chinese and japanese colonists. But which grain and vegetable fits, and to which extent, is outside my scope. I remember even some timelines here with natives experimenting...
  7. The Decade of Disaster: What if the Franco-Prussian War Escalated? (relaunched)

    Since they clearly haven't embargoed nitrates, Britain may have made a minor fortune selling the stuff. Possibly yet another reason for Gladstone not to have entered the war.
  8. galileo-034

    An Alternate History of the Republic of Nauru

    Watched. Such a pity Nauru squandered its wealth around and forsake its future, so I'm waiting to see how you're going to give them a more fair outcome. Do you plan for a post to put the TL into perspective for those who may not be familiar with Nauru's OTL path?
  9. Henry Tudor, Heretic and Father of Kings

    Not necessarily - it may have had a development similar to the Carolingian Dynasty.
  10. Possibility of cowpox zoonosis to humans?

    When humans are infected with cowpox, they generally gain a few sores near the area it entered the body which go away after a week or two. Human-to-human transmission is very rare, but there are a few reports of possible instances of that happening. Would it be possible for it to mutate into a...
  11. Osman Aga

    Sehzade Mahmud (Son of Mehmed III) Becomes Sultan

    A successful janissary coup in this period will have bigger negative effects than the periods of Bayezid II and Selim I. But sure, let's continue... Mahmud was very much loved by the military. This popularity was used by his Grandmother Safiye to use against his Father. In result Mahmud died...
  12. AHQ: was Greece destined to be the cradle of European civilization?

    The simple explation is because they wrote stuff down. The more complex one is that Greek geography lent itself to a society dominated by city states and made food imports viable. This create a large urban population but without one center of culture which could enforce a orthodoxy on the entire...
  13. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    Do you have actual cost numbers for the synthetic oil program vs world oil prices at the time? Recall that the Nazis had serious hard currency issues since the economy was weak. Furthermore, you can’t stockpile oil forever and the Nazis didn’t have a crystal ball telling them when war would...
  14. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    No. Marxism is old. It was developed before modern social science and placed way to much emphasis on economical factors. Marxism assumes that if you change the way the economy is organised the way people think, feel and act will adjust more or less automatically and they will become happy, well...
  15. Kynan

    List of Alternate Monarchs and Aristocratic Lineage

    Scenario: Surviving Elizabeth Tudor the Elder. Henry VII, King of England (b.1457: d.1509) m. Elizabeth of York (b.1466: d.1503) (a) 1a) Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales (b.1486: d.1502) m. Catherine, Infanta of Aragon and Castile (b.1486: d.1536) (a) - had no issue 2a) Margaret Tudor, Princess...
  16. How does the situation in Israel/Palestine play out with no WW2/Holocaust?

    Why would they abandon their homes in civilized Europe, their friends, jobs or businesses, to move in a desert, just because 2 thousand years ago there was the chosen land?
  17. The Decade of Disaster: What if the Franco-Prussian War Escalated? (relaunched)

    One word. Nitrates By this point in the war, all actors have to have burned off their existing supplies of gunpowder. Britain, de facto, controlled the world's supply, of nitrates. Had they imposed a general embargo on sales to the warring parties, the war would already be over.
  18. Is civilizational centrism inevitable?

    I think it's largely inevitable as it's certainly not just a European trait. As a major example China was well known for doing that. It seems to be the natural outcome when you get a largely hegemonic power.
  19. UK General Election in 1938-39?

    An election called in early March for early April could be very interesting. Purdah would mean the British government couldn't react and while we know Hitler was going to invade anyway they wouldn't in the ATL. Labour could blame Chamberlain both for the Munich Agreement and for calling a snap...
  20. FriendlyGhost

    Request Maps/Flags/Coats of Arms/Heraldry here, II

    Better late than never, here's your third request: (as always, click the thumbnail for the full-size image) You asked for the Tuscan crown to be closed. I made it only single-arched, as otherwise the fleur-de-lys design at the front kind of disappeared. Hope that's okay.
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